Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
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1,009 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Ben Nadeff-Haffrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I had brought the old videos I'd found with me.
They're sort of fantastic.
He still looked like a cowboy to me.
So far, working on the project, I'd only heard the New York City view of secession.
I wanted to hear the Staten Island one.
We sat down at their kitchen table and started to talk.
The Singletaries had moved to Staten Island because they had two kids and wanted a pleasant place to live.
And they liked what they found there.
Alice worked in the schools, eventually as a principal.
It was a nice community.
Except, of course, for the dump.
All of a sudden, a barge full of trash showed up.
Of course, it wasn't just the dump that got under Staten Islander's skin.
There were developers cramming the island with crummy houses, poor sewers, the constant disrespect, and also the reality of living in a city with a lot of homelessness.
Staten Islanders would walk essentially through a soup kitchen to catch the ferry home from Lower Manhattan.
The Singletary's kept using this word for what it felt like in New York City at the time.
Sandpapering.
What do you mean sandpapering with sensitivities?
Yeah.
And around that time, Singletary learned that there might be a way to fix all this.
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